Less than a year ago we saw the corporate ad committee make some changes to the ad that saw stores across the company lose money. They apologized after a bad bonus check and went back to the way before that was just fine. Now we see corporate making more decisions that will just lead to Randy and his friends at corporate have bigger bonus checks while we at the store level get screwed.
I’ve worked at Hy-Vee for 7 years including the last 3 years as an assistant manager. My favorite thing about Hy-Vee has been the employee ownership. That is quickly going away. Corporate decides hours. Corporate decides what displays we have. Corporate forces product out that we can never sell. Hurts our bonus, helps them. At this point I find no pride in my “ownership” I find myself just working for a corporation that could care less about me. We need a union for the lower level employees with a union we can fight back. Then we could take Hy-Vee back to where it’s supposed to be, when the employees at the store makes the decisions. Not people sitting in an office who has never been to our store, our community, and have absolutely no clue what they are doing.